You mean this is not a sane approach to winning the Peace Prize?

See github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/p… and github.com/bitcoin-core/leve… (and many other small ones). If we can get enough reviewers these could probably get into v32.

I'll stop talking about Israel when Israel gets the fuck out of my face. I don't enjoy writing about this shit. I don't enjoy getting called a Nazi by state-funded shills all day. I didn't ask to spend years watching a live-streamed genocide perpetrated right in front of my eyes with the facilitation of my own government. I didn't choose to live in a world where Israel's actions directly affect me and my country. I never invited the Israel lobby to attack my freedom of speech by trying to outlaw criticism of a genocidal apartheid state. It was never my decision to live in an information ecosystem where pro-Israel propagandists are constantly trying to deceive me about what's going on in my world and manipulate the thoughts in my head. Those things were imposed upon me. Don't want me to talk about Israel? Then stop shocking me with horrifying Israeli atrocities. Stop trying shove Israeli bullshit down my throat. Stop trying to erode my rights for the advancement of Israeli information interests. Stop trying to make my society dumber and more sociopathic with propaganda indoctrination. Stop starting wars that directly affect me. Stop lobbying my government to support unspeakable evils. I'll stop speaking about Israel when Israel stops making itself my problem.

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this: "Israel did X." "Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y." "Yeah, because Israel did Z." "Yeah but only because the Arabs did A." But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there. Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there. So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen. And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today. This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected. Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews. The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

🚨 5 Lies about Iran’s nuclear program that hawks use to push war with the US. They sound scary on cable news… the facts from US intel, IAEA, and even hawkish experts say otherwise. Thread exposing the propaganda 👇 1/9

RT @Excellion: JFC. They made a film with Faketoshi as the hero. Then we also had: ➡️ Idiot professor saying Bitcoin was made by the CIA…

The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

We’re are at the point of history where most April Fool’s jokes are indistinguishable from totally real things that happen regularly now. 😅

Great news for all of the pro-war podcasters. Most of them are now eligible to join. Happy for them.

RT @Excellion: So this has been my sidequest for the last year: setting up a new nonprofit with @jimmysong, @parkeralewis, and @jratcliff.…

New tool on HashExplained 🎉 Merkle Tree Visualizer The data structure behind bitcoin, Git, and IPFS, now you can explore it interactively.

No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡 Created UNIX in 1971 when he was 28 years old. Created Go in 2009 when he was 66 years old😲 He also developed the B programming language (which led to C), created UTF-8 encoding (making international text possible online), and designed essential tools like grep that developers still rely on daily. He also helped with the development of Multics (that led to UNIX), Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems. That's 4 operating systems in total... Most people don't even use these many OS. Pretty impressive resume, right? 🔥 And it's a shame that many people, even the ones in the IT and tech industry, don't know him. Ken Thompson.... Remember the name 🙏

On the question of how to view the mempool ... youtu.be/8cE_Lcxc5gk @mattkratter One way I gain understanding is by contrast. The Visa network owns and operates data centers around the world. The person in charge of Visa engineering has undoubtedly set up rules or policies for the overall operation of the network. Each data center (I assume) has a manager with some autonomy, but is expected to implement and adhere to corporate policy. Any manager who doesn't can be considered to have gone rogue and can justifiably be fired. It's obvious how different the Bitcoin network is! Individual node runners are not taking a salary as employees. We're using our own private property to be part of this network. We have the right to use our private-property node as we wish, and the worst that can happen is that we're ignored by the other nodes. These "single mempool" people think of the Bitcoin network as more like the Visa network. They're wrong. Even if a more unified mempool policy would be better for overall network operation, too bad, we're sovereign property owners.

No War With Iran.

I thought when Trump and the Republicans took over, one of their first priorities was to finally get rid of the hated Daylight Saving Time. Whatever happened to that? Instead, they gave us a new war 😡